bleak (
http://definr.com/bleak)
adj 1: offering little or no hope; "the future looked black";
"prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has
always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a
dim view of things" [syn:
black,
dim]
2: providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills";
"barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high
Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark
landscape" [syn:
bare,
barren,
desolate,
stark]
3: unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North
Atlantic" [syn:
cutting,
raw]